Arguments Against Animal Dissection in Secondary School

Summary: Dissection of animals in schools should cease once and for all. It is inhumane, contributing to the death of millions of animals and putting children in a situation they may not yet be able to handle. It is also outdated, with more advanced alternatives now used to educate children just as effectively.

Animal Dissection In Secondary Schools

Dissection of animals in schools is an outdated and inhumane practice. This leads to the death of over six million animals in North America a year, it forces children to go through something they might not yet be ready to handle, and more advanced alternatives have been proven just as effective in educating youth.

The amount of death caused by animal dissection every year is over 6 million. This is in North America alone. That is higher than the amount of death caused by smoking throughout the world. Also, there have been cases where the animals to be dissected were put to sleep in morbidly inhumane ways, such as cats being drowned alive. In fact, these animals are often taken from their natural environment, damaging their habitat and threatening an entire ecology. Why doe we allow this to take more life in 6 years than...